Harvard Book Store

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Harvard Book Store is an independent and locally owned seller of used, new, and bargain books in Cambridge's Harvard Square.

Harvard Book Store was established in 1932 by Mark Kramer, father of longtime owner Frank Kramer, and originally sold used textbooks to students.{{cite web |url=http://www.harvard.com/about/history.html |title=Harvard Book Store |accessdate=2010-05-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726123956/http://www.harvard.com/about/history.html |archivedate=26 July 2010}}{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/05/28/next_chapter_for_best_seller/ |title=Next chapter for best seller |accessdate=2010-05-09 |author=David Mehegan | work=The Boston Globe | date=2008-05-28}}

Family-owned for over seventy-five years, the store was sold in the fall of 2008 to Jeffrey Mayersohn and Linda Seamonson of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and remains an independent business.{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/10/02/wellesley_couple_buy_harvard_book_store/ |title=Wellesley couple buy Harvard Book Store |accessdate=2010-05-09 |author=David Mehegan | work=The Boston Globe | date=2008-10-02}}{{cite news | last = Lee | first = Felicia | title = Bookstore for Sale | work = The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/arts/30arts-BOOKSTOREFOR_BRF.html | accessdate = 27 May 2010 | date=2008-05-30}}

Though often confused with the Harvard Coop,{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}} the store has no affiliation with Harvard University or the Harvard Coop bookstore, which is managed by Barnes & Noble. With a focus on an academic and intellectual audience, the store's selection and customer service is repeatedly honored by local publications and surveys.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}}

Forbes named the book store as its top bookshop in its "World's Top Shops 2005" list.{{Cite web | title = World's Top Shops 2005 | work = Forbes.com | url = https://www.forbes.com/2005/12/14/cx_sb_1215featslide.html?thisSpeed=6000 | accessdate = 27 May 2010 | archiveurl = https://archive.today/20130123124612/http://www.forbes.com/2005/12/14/cx_sb_1215featslide.html?thisSpeed=6000 | archivedate = 23 January 2013 | url-status = dead }}

In 2009, the store introduced an on-demand book printing service called the Espresso Book Machine, produced by New York firm On Demand Books, using books in the public domain available through Google Library.{{cite news | last = Merrigan | first = Tara | title = Google Library and Harvard Offer On-Demand Books | work = FoxNews.com | url=http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/09/22/google-library-harvard-offer-demand-books/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423001057/http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/09/22/google-library-harvard-offer-demand-books/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=23 April 2010 | accessdate = 27 May 2010 | date=2009-09-22}}

In recent years, a well-attended author event series has hosted Al Gore, Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, John Updike, Orhan Pamuk, and Stephen King, in addition to a number of local writers and academics.{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/11/15/harvard-book-store-celebrates-75-years/ |title=Harvard Book Store Celebrates 75 Years of Literature and Community |accessdate=2010-05-09 |author=Beryl C.D. Lipton |date=November 2007}}